Background
Sapiano was born at Balzan, Malta, in 1911.
Sapiano was born at Balzan, Malta, in 1911.
In philosophy he was mostly interested in epistemology. He held the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Malta between 1953 and 1971. He began his studies at the Lyceum, where he showed special interest in literature, and was also awarded prices for lieutenant
Afterwards, he pursued his studies at the Gregorian University in Rome (1928-1939).
He was ordained a priest in 1934. At Rome he obtained a doctorate in philosophy, another in theology, and a licentiate in Church history.
Back in Malta in 1944, Sapiano was appointed Professor of Patrology and Liturgy at the University of Malta. In 1950, for the next year and a half, he held the Chair of Philosophy at the same university on a pro tem basis.
After becoming, in 1951, a Professor of Philosophy he continued some studies for another year and a half, and then, in 1953, he was finally appointed to the Chair of Philosophy, an office he kept for the next twenty years, up till 1971.
Here, of course, he had a full complement of courses. Simultaneously, between 1944 and 1952, he also taught dogmatics, patrology, and liturgy at the bishop’s major seminary, and Latin at the minor seminary. Furthermore, he was theologian of the Metropolitan Chapter (1952), and prosynodal examiner and judge at the bishop’s curia.
He died in 1985.